#Own your opinion

[burnwater13]

Hi, I'm usually on this site (still very new) writing tiny stories about Grogu and a few other allied topics. I like writing and I enjoy interacting with you all.

I am taking this little bit of time to say, own your opinions. You have a right to have opinions, popular or otherwise. But own them. Don't ascribe them to "they", "everyone", "it", "you", etc.

I am a Star Wars fan. I don't enjoy every little bit of Star Wars to the same extent. I like some of it more and some of it less. For example, I really enjoy The Mandalorian. I especially like Grogu. That's why I write stories about the little guy.

But I understand that you may think that Grogu is the worst thing in the Star Wars universe. That's okay. Express that opinion. Say things like, "I don't enjoy Grogu. I find that character distracting or too comical." That's an example of you owning your opinion.

What I see many times on social media is "Worst thing ever", "They failed us", "Can't understand why anyone wouldn't love this", "Perfect episode, no notes, unless you don't get fandom X", etc.

My response to that is, really? A single character, a single episode, a single action, made something you loved into something you could no longer enjoy? Or that particular thing you love is something you believe that everyone else should love, no matter what?

I enjoy hyperbole, I do. But perhaps, when you share your opinion, start by owning it. Try it this way once in a while, "I hate that they used a celebrity in a cameo because it distracted me from the story"... or "I really enjoyed this episode because I love celebrity cameos". You see, your opinion is out there. It is known. But... you are not mocking the people who don't agree with you. You are also not implying that everyone else or anyone else agrees with you.

Your argument, pro or con, has the full weight of you and your opinion and that's great. I want you all to have your thoughts and opinions known and understood.

If you have to use hyperbole, if you have a need for the drama, and the one upmanship, then write your own stories. Tell them the way you want to. Take the same risk the people who made that piece of media took. They created a thing for you and others to see, interact with, and hopefully enjoy. But our individual mileage varies. Hyperbole doesn't help those people course correct, add nuance, or even understand your true opinion because you never expressed it in a meaningful way.

But hey, I'm not your mom. You do you. I know you will anyway and I want you to. In my opinion a fan helps the creators of content get better at creating content by sharing their opinions in a manner that provides details, not just hyperbole.

Thank you for reading this rant. I hope you have a lovely day.

[ganymedesclock]

I think cis people should also be their gender of choice. Like, if you're a man, you should get to really enjoy being a man- have fun with it! If you're a woman, take the parts of womanhood that really deeply make you happy. If being a little androgynous or ambiguous or hidden is the part that really makes you happy, you don't have to be trans for that. If you wanna lean really hard into being femme or masc- do it! You have one life in your body, do what makes you happy. Ditch the stuff you don't like.

My sinister queer agenda is I think that everyone should be the gender they like in the way they like it.

[kerrste]

I can’t beleive they just walked around like this for the whole movie

[chiefofboatwatsonstittymug]

The notes on this post are annoying me. Look at this pigeon instead.

They have an unusual colour/pattern combination and I love them.

Count yourself lucky you're seeing this because any more clowning and I'm changing the content of this post to my thesis statement on how to make The Woman Hunter (1972) an actually watchable movie.

[ghostslimu]

you will never be a bad person for not reblogging a post on tumblr, please remember that

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

i had a friend who was raped as a teenager and had a really strict mum who did not let her go out so she was really lonely. when she turned 18 she started going clubbing and since we live in a city with a big fetish scene, she started going to the kinky venue. since she was young, naive and very pretty, she was immediately roped in by older men who did bondage shootings with her and everything. she started working in the club. to me, she was clearly groomed, but she works in a fetish shop now and is fully immersed in the scene

i have a friend who answered a job ad for a secretary when she was abroad and she and her friend ran out of money but when they arrived there it was a brothel. they both prostituted themselves for several months. they were only 18. she still talks highly of that brothel, how clean and safe it was, and wants prostitution to be legal

i read the gut wrenching biography of a thai woman who ran away from home, whose parents refused her education and treated her brother very preferably while openly hating her, and entered prostitution in sex tourist destination pattaya at only 13. she was paid by men in their 50s first for her virginity, then to piss on her. she exited at 19 and developed psychosis. she defends sex buyers, hates feminists and wants prostitution to be legal

do you see where im going with this? brainwashing is real. despite the obvious facts, the grooming, the system that pushed and pulled them, the men taking advantage of them; they defend it. so yeah, we shouldnt dismiss firsthand testimony and personal experience, but always take it with a grain of salt, always contextualise, always see it as one part of a bigger picture. liberals dont do that and have duped too many people into not doing it either. „if thats her choice its none of our business“ fuck you!

[gingerswagfreckles]

It's crazy how a completely random gentile can just lie and say "this Jew who talks about antisemitism on the left is a Zionist" and everyone just goes oh ok thanks and then dismisses everything you've said forever no matter how well thought out your posts are or how many hours you spend citing primary source evidence. And no matter how much you say you're not a Zionist everyone is just like ok well you're a slimy lying Jew and the person who accused you is a noble gentile 🤨 who should I really believe about your own political opinions?? And then they go back to not reading the news and spreading conspiracy theories about hostages writing their captors thank you letters and Spotify Wrapped being a Jewish Plot. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

To specify (because there is a character limit in polls), I am asking if it’s okay for consumers of your work to leave comments with criticism of the show and also if you are okay with people leaving comments with constructive criticism of your work

If you can, specify what type of creator you are in the tags!

[arachnerd-8-legs]

really disappointing that bunjywunjy had to be pestered twice just to quietly remove their reblog after using their huge platform to encourage garbage like raving about the lesbian estonian soviet flag and how 'new pride flag just dropped' so people could go 'ooh pretty' about a flag that was forced onto us by ppl who wanted our culture gone and oppressed us for about a century in total if not more.

to say nothing or not show anything of the truth about that flag and quietly remove the reblog felt more like it was done out of obligation (and you didn't agree) rather than care for the subject matter that is still a fresh wound in our country's memory. it's only been 33 years since it ended.

I'd rather you make the mistake about something you didn't know (eastern european history is easy for westeners to overlook, because we're not a big country like them, we're not england or france or spain or germany) and admit/apologize for said mistake or even just outright state that you don't actually care rather than say nothing and quietly remove something so that people would stop talking about it

[milkbreadtoast]

idk how i want to draw him yet and not ready to make a srs attempt but here's a bad kdj phone doodle lol🚶🏻

[poisonedfate]

bbc merlin - 03x08 The Eye of the Phoenix

the guy who can barely get the words "we're friends" past his lips vs the guy who will call you his best friend within the first day of you meeting aka the different representations of love and affection in bbc merlin

[phantom-of-the-501st]

"I don't enjoy solitude."

I was thinking about this line and I find the context of it really interesting because on the surface it suggests that Echo doesn't like being by himself, which is true, but the conversation wasn't about Echo being alone. Omega was asking him if he wanted to join in with some meditation, and that's when Echo said he doesn't like solitude. It isn't just being by himself physically. It's being left alone with his own thoughts that really gets to him.

And it's so much of why Echo never sits still. He's always with someone or doing something because it's how he escapes being inside his own head. The only time I can think of where Echo is just sat by himself, not actively doing something, is here

And it's not exactly giving "yay fun happy Echo times". It's more "depressed and thinking about all of his dead brothers times."

This is why he's always doing something. Not just to save his brothers but because the one thing Echo can't do is sit still and do nothing. He can't retire, he can't go and live a chill life on Pabu because this man hasn't found a way to temper his own thoughts. He just keeps going and going and going because stopping means confronting what's in his head and he is undoubtedly going to spiral.

And I think that's partly why Hunter is a little hesitant about Echo staying in the Rebellion. It isn't just about the fact that the Empire is too powerful, or that Echo has a chance of being KIA, it's also about the fact that Echo will just run himself into the ground. There's only so long he can keep it up for and one day he's going to hit his limit.

I don't know what the end is for Echo. The only way he's going to kick his feet up and retire is when he actually heals enough to not go into a depressive episode or a panic attack every time he isn't distracted. Yes, Echo is better than he was when he was first rescued, but realistically this man has done almost fuck all actual processing of anything he's gone through.

Because it terrifies him.

And that's so valid. But when everyone in the fandom is trying to work out where he is or what happens to him, I genuinely don't know. I strongly believe he will stay in the fight for as long as he can. But how his story ends? I can't say.

Edit: I want to clarify that I don't think Echo is only in the fight purely as an escape mechanism. I just think it'd definitely a big player in why he never seems to stop.

[witchlingcirce]

Seeing people refer to Daenerys as entitled, or narcissistic is so actually mind boggling. Like DAENERYS???? The Daenerys who never even had a proper home??? The girl who said she would not rule of ash?? And wanted a happy kingdom??? The girl Who listens to all of her people’s complaints almost everydau??? Same girl who cried over chaining her dragons away??? THE GIRL who is legit kind to people who aren’t even close to deserving it (Viserys, Jorah)??? LIKE DAENERYSSS?!??!?!?!?!??

[dob-the-destroyer]

the scene where alicent is bathing after an encounter with criston is even more heartbreaking under a lesbian lens.

because of course, she’s wiping away her sin. she had sex outside of marriage, with someone sworn to celibacy, and that’s against everything in the religion she has clung to for so long.

but also she couldn’t even enjoy it. this act that she’s forsaken herself for didn’t bring much pleasure, only stimulation. sure, some part of her enjoyed it, as one would, but it still wasn’t right. she hasn’t found “the right man” to fall in love with, even after turning to this (in her eyes) egregious sin.

so she’s scrubbing herself clean from her actions but also trying to clean away the fact that it wasn’t worth it. she’s still broken and still clinging to rhaenyra and the love they shared decades ago. and she hates herself for it.

[ankahikoibaat]

my two sentence pithy hopepunk post escaped containment - you never can predict what will! - and it was obviously never going to encompass the whole spectrum of story possibilities hopepunk obviously like, omg, people in the notes. but i reiterate!

Star Wars is hopepunk! not grimdark!

it doesn't mean there's not darkness or evil or bad in the stories or genre, but ultimately it's about the triumph of good or the possibility thereof!

personally, i find the focus on stories in the fascist government point of view loses that - and are honestly a drain - and I stand by that, but also, stop defining morally gray at me people! i do know the meaning even if i'm not writing out the damn definition!

also, morally gray does not automatically mean more interesting or more nuanced! (anyone saying that can fight me.) (i'm a wuss and too chronically ill for this so not really.)

choosing to be good, to do good in a world of increasing darkness and evil and selfishness is a fucking compelling story, and it can be handled with such complexity and delicacy if someone actually gives a shit and doesn't go "good vs evil is boring" automatically!